February 26, 2008
Use the maps! They can be found on each floor of the library, but now you may familiarise yourselves with their layout and so chart your course before arriving, as every good navigator should. Just click on each map below to see a bigger version of the image.
February 25, 2008
In addition to producing fascinating and useful prose in the daily (or more frequent!) blog entries, we plan to make even the sidebar a veritable treasure trove of information. There you will find many links that will help you in your studies, and the inaugural resources just added are two style guides that you may use when writing your assignment papers and dissertations. Style guides help you when you are writing references and bibliographies, by showing you how to lay out the individual reference or bibliography entry.
The Chicago Style is the preferred style in the MAFDA, MAEAA, MACA, MAP courses, and in the semester courses. Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers: of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations is an excellent guide to the Chicago Style, and we have several copies in the Library’s reference section, under the shelf mark REF.WRI.TUR; you may find it in the library catalogue.
The Chicago Style is also available online, at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html. MAAB students may discuss the various style guides with their tutors and supervisors to decided which is best.
An alternative to Turabian’s guide is the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) Style Guide. We have two copies of the 2002 edition in the Library, under the shelfmark REF.WRI, and the most recent edition, which has just been published, is available online at http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml. We also have two copies of the 2008 edition on order.
The links to both the Chicago style and the MHRA style are available through this blog, in the Blogroll section of the sidebar to the right.
February 25, 2008
To the students who are hopefully rushing here to try out our new blog, welcome! As a foreword to the blog proper, so to speak, I would like to talk about why we are doing this. We have various ideas and plans, some already set in motion. Here you will be able to find help for your various assignments, as we recommend particularly useful resources, from books to e-journals. Here you will be able to check library opening hours and staffing levels. Here you will be able to bring to our attention subjects on which you need help with your research.
However, as this is first and foremost supposed to be a way of keeping in touch with your good selves, we would like to hear your ideas as to how you think it should work and what kind of information you would like to get from the blog. To make this truly work, we need write new posts on a regular basis, and you need to respond, posting your comments as often as you are able.
